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A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.
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Audiences 59GoodWatch 65
IMDb5.9
Running time
1 h 12 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 comedies, −28 min on the typical 100
typical 10072Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Released
1940
July 20, 1940
86 years ago
Genre
ComedyLanguage
English
Original language
and 9 more16 people
- Fred EmneyMr. Brown
- Basil RadfordMr. Sidway
- Iris HoeyMrs. Brown
- Roddy McDowallGinger
- Peter MilesHenry
- David TreeMarmaduke Bott
- Jenny LairdEthel Brown
- SLSimon LackRobert Brown
- Aubrey MatherFletcher
Eliot MakehamMan in sweet shop
Marjorie RhodesCook- ESEric SearleMarmaduke Sidway
- JVJack VyvyanPoliceman
Richard LupinoWilliam Brown
Amy VenessMrs. Bott- NRNorman RobinsonDouglas
Directing · 1
- Graham Cutts Director
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